Doctor Who is back for a brand-new season, along with the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion, Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson). With the arrival of Doctor Who’s fourteenth season on Disney+, the long-running sci-fi series is welcoming a new generation of fans to join a veritable legion of experienced Whovians.
Whether you’ve been a fan of the Doctor since the initial run, fell in with its 2005 revival, or have just started wading into all things “timey-wimey,” returning showrunner and writer Russell T Davies is offering treasures with the premiere episode “Space Babies.”
Along with a space-set fairy tale of monsters and derring-do, “Space Babies” delivers a bumper crop of references, questions answered, and other assorted Easter eggs. Here’s what you might have missed.
Gallifrey is gone, babes.
Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, has spent the last 20 years bouncing in and out of existence on Doctor Who. In Davies’ first era as showrunner (2005-2010), the planet had been wiped out in a mysterious Time War with the Doctor’s main enemy, the Daleks. Wiped out, we were led to believe over seven seasons, by the Doctor himself.
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